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Forecasting with alternative data is where analytics meets alpha, but it only works when rigor meets realism. Here’s how it plays out in practice:

💡 Case 1 – Predicting Retail Sales with Transaction Data
An analyst team built a gradient boosting model using weekly transaction data and web traffic deltas as features. After aligning timestamps and removing look-ahead bias, their model predicted retail sales growth with a 0.85 correlation to actuals, giving a two-week lead before official numbers dropped.

📉 Case 2 – The Overfitting Trap
Another team trained a deep model on app usage and sentiment data. It looked flawless in backtests, until market conditions shifted and accuracy collapsed. The model had memorized noise, not learned a signal.
The takeaway: good forecasting blends robust data engineering with humility. It’s not about being right every time, it’s about being early with confidence.

💬 What’s the most reliable leading signal you’ve found from alt data?

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